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KK75
New member | Level 2
3 years ago

Pop up alert for duplicate file

When uploading a file to a folder it no longer pops up alerting me I’m uploading a duplicate file (which sometimes do by mistake if not deleted an email etc and forgot I’ve already done it lol!)…how d...
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Dell_Dropbox
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6 months ago

For those who are popping into this thread after the fact,

Generally speaking, uploading a single or batch file will automatically rename the file if it is a duplicate, this aligns with in-app behavior for files with the same name.

When uploading from a 3rd party app (like Gmail), we attempt to detect duplicates, but may fall back on the default behavior if duplicates were not detected at the time of upload.

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